Treatment of ores for the extraction of metals therefrom.



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all who; it may concern:

Be it known that I, Iluouas ltoeaur, a citizen of the Re ublic of France, residing at 180 Bouleva St. Michel, Paris, in the l tthlic of France, chemist, have inv ntad in new and metal lmproveuwm m or Relating to the Treatment of, Oren for thr Extraction of Metala Theretrom, of whn-h the following is a apeoitication.

1o 'fltepreaent invention relates to an un-.'

proved wet. prooeae for the extraction of netala, eachkl for instance I as nialgel, cobalt, copper or to en rom t It ores, or wh e se iron occurs as an im- Thm area may be in the form of aroma eulfo-areenates, oxids or ailicatee, and in case of the three former or any anal us kinda of ores, the same may be roaated be are treatment.

Thia proceaa it based u n the employmeet, in the treatmuit of t e area, of ozone and a ehloridiai? a t, each as chloriu or hydrochloric aci I ioh are raneed to not,

tly u the one while the latter are m l a very finely divided tote all as hereinafter more full deacribed. 'Ihe 'ehlorin new-epaary to t ia operation can be roduccd iii any ltlitlbitt way, but may or example obtained by the deoompoaition of chlorid o um, and aoontinuoua process may thus be eltahhahed in which the chlorid of malneaiiun is regenerated over and over in. f Zl-i detailed'deacription of the pmcenu one may take aa an example, the mineral garniarite --a hydro-silicate of nickel and :Ilna ia the nickel on of New Caledonia. 1a to be understood ia applicable to all above.

A: above noted, the chlorin for this opera tion may be obtained by the decompoaition of ehlorid of magneaium, thia operation hain to the equation which can be readily decoin msed into 11,0 and naaoaat ehlorin by the action of ozone. Daria: the time that the eblorin in being genera read to be directed on to the orea ornmnera a to be treated, hydrate of tun it formed in the solution and it however that the pmees 4a thenfinorals mentioned haetleattoa of Letters intent. Applteattoa lied November 14, 1007. Serial No. 402.204.

depoaita in the term of a precipitate or ran-mod Fob. a. into.

he used as "art-after desoribod an the pm- 2 cipitating agent in the separation of Hit metals. The ("'1' or mineral (after. it urrrmu'y. roaming in the canof nulthln or areenatra) in ground with the addition of water as finely an pmniblo. While this grinding opt'l'tliltm is being (-arriod out, the ore is simultanmuslysubjected to the not ion of ohloriu or other suitable ahloridiziug agent. and at thr some time there ii-s'dirt-i-ted into the apparatus a current of ozonizu'l air. In iillH manner mtuuath comm-t is not up betweon the ditl'ort-nt. sulistu the action of the chlor n or hydrm-hlorir acid or other suitable '..hlvridi1.ing a oid is greatly increased by the premium 0' (mont- \rhirh splits up the mob-vulva as it were. no that. rhlorin in the nascent condition is setfree to act on the metallic roimtiturnts of the ore and thus all the metals llttzltlli. are ronrorted into chloride in the ulh'at pot-o sible degree of chlorination, that is to an the highest. chloride of the ore are obtaiuet the iron for example lit-wining ferric rhlorid instead of ferrous chlorid. 't\|(ll10\'(l' the (mono nerves also to fully oxidize any other materials, such as iron mmpouuds, whit-h may be prt-aent, thus converting them into a condition wherein they can be moro readily chlorinated or brought into solution. This chlorination in the present-tof ozone heiu ended, the whole mate: is pom-4| into the ll tor remand the liquid rhloride are sepa- .rutot from the residue. The name is aftereanun accompanied by and of Iron."

ward wa'tibod two or three times in order to oxtrat the whole of the soluble materials. These filtrates or washing waters are again added to the original solution for further um in he treatment for the separation of tho iuatala. Thus in the pir'eont example. there is in this ori iual :mlntion only chlorid of magnrnium (hi gflh), of nickel (NW-L) or of cobalt ((lofll and porrhlorid of iron (F043,). These metals air muxvoasimely precipitated in the iorm of oxids or hydrates for the separation of-ono from the other.

lty a preliminary trot, one detrrmilu-s the oxart quantity of luugmmium magma uroewuu'y to precipitate all the iron contained in the complex ehloriil mixture. ihe are determined quantity ofnmgmu is addt. to this liquid, and all the iron is precipitated as prM-nt. while 'l'heae mlutiona can he reill inthaatataotli m n: "a," ydra lllltlt08t (t'flt u eil d 'l'he nieltei and the cobalt are both completely precipitated tt -ther. The whole ta named through the her preae, and the preerpitate in Wtnvlttttl and in the aolutiona nothing remains but chlorid of magnesium.

nerated thna retnn'ering the chlorin at the nmgneeimn magma, to be employed ngain Ill a new a-t'ttt't-t ol-tmerations.

lt ta to be underatotal that the IIH't'Illltlll iii in no way limited to n regenerative proeeaa aueh aa dtmeribed, its the net ion of ozone and a ehloridixing agent may be employed alone in any lll'ttttt'rtfi of ore treatment orextraction to which it. only be found to be a: ilieable.

rumination aetion may be carried out at one atage and then the oaoniaing action noty be a tiooe hi d Moreover in eome cant-a the I amen lied to the chloride or ehlorid minin order to inaure their being in the of chlorination.

Vhat I claim and desire to secure by Lettera Patent of the United States ia:--'

1. In the treatment of ores in the wet way, the step which conaiata in treating the one with a chloridiaing mixture in aullcient qnantity to insure the formation of the hmheat chlorida obtainable in the wet way, and aimnltanetawly introducing oaone to liberate the ehlorin from the said mixture in the nascent state.

2. In the treatment of urea in the wet way, the proeena whieh t-miaiats in treating ore. with ehloriu and ozone and precipitating any ehlorid aolntiom that may be formed by not ieomnt hydride nulattaltlially as deseribt :l. in the treatment of urea in the wet way, the proceae which conaittta in treating ores with ehlorin obtained by deeontptiaing ma zttenitlltl ehlorid, eollectltttl the magneaium hydrate rtmulting from the tieeotnptatition, and union it to precipitate any metallic ehlorid mlutiona obtained by the joint action of the chloridiziog agent and the ozone, nttlatlttlllittll) an tleacribed.

In lt'hllllttllly whereof I have hereunto let my hand in preeenee of two nulaaeribing witnem-e-i this 5th dny of November 1007.

Jt'ut'a Monunzu, t. lhuxmn llt'mmx. 

